Measurement for Sustainable Development South Africa Statistics Matter

1. Measurement for Sustainable Development South Africa Statistics Matter Pali Lehohla Statistician-General: South Africa Chair: African Symposium for Statistical Development (ASSD) Open Working Group on SDGs United Nations New York 17-12-2013

2. Outline of Presentation on Sustainable Development • What is Sustainable Development? • Key areas to be addressed per Secretary General’s report • Lead thinking on development? • Lead praxis on development • Instruments and content of measurement for development • How has the agenda been addressed thus far • Measurement Gaps and what is being done • What statistical plans is Africa implementing • Recommendations for the Open Working Group

3. What is Sustainable Development At the minimum maintaining a balance between Balance Improvement of lifestyle and well-being Preserving natural resources and ecosystems Development that meets the needs of the present without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own needs (Mintzer 1992)

4. What are the key tenets for for Achieving Sustainable Development Post 2015 by SG • Leave no one behind • Locate sustainable development at the core • Transform economies for jobs and inclusive growth • Institutionalize just and accountable systems for peace and freedom • Forge a new global partnership

5. Some of lead thinking on Development • “The philosophers have only interpreted the world in various ways; the point is to change it.” Karl Marx • Religious-spiritual: Jacques-Benigne Bosseut (1627-1704) • Renaissance and enlightenment: Diderot, Helvetius, Holbach • Dialectical thinking and critique of renaissance: Hegel • Private property critique: Messlier, Rousseau, Morelly • Scientific study of society: Smith, Ricardo • Scientific study of society, social formations: Engels, Marx • Measurement of Gross National Income: Kuznets • Economic and social justice theories: Amarteya Sen • Beyond GDP: Stiglitz Commission

6. Praxis: Some of the Lead thinking and action for Development • Abraham Lincoln of nation building and abolishing slavery things that are equal to the same thing are equal to each other (Euclidean notions) • Mahatma Ghandi: Using non-violence and passive resistance methods to drive change • Lenin: Driving Soviet change through socialism • Mao Ze Dong: Driving Chinese change through communism • Martin Luther King: Fighting for equality using non-violence • Mother Teresa: fighting poverty and poverty of exclusion • Bhumidol Adulyadej of Thailand: Sufficiency economy • Bhutan: Gross National Happiness • Nelson Mandela: Driving change through a democratic and free society. Demonstrating the value and practice of perseverance, truth, reconciliation and forgivenness

7. “But we do at last have results with which we can work, the numbers that count for the nation. It will take time to absorb the full detail of this intricate picture of our complex society but the broad outlines should act as the clarion call to re-dedicate ourselves in every sector of the society, to the historic mission of a generation charged with transforming South African’s society in order to eradicate the poverty and imbalances that derive from our past. ” Nelson Mandela - during the handover of Census 96 results to President Mandela 1998.

8. Government outcomes mapped to the MDGs

9. Government outcomes mapped to the MDGs

10. Goals, Targets and Adapting the Indicators of MDGs to national conditions

11. Transform economies for jobs and inclusive growth: MDG 1&2 Understanding Economic growth & transformation 171 releases 12 releases Mining & Quarrying Manufacturing 18 releases Trade 36 releases 25 releases Business services GDP 17 releases 15 releases Finance Quarterly Construction Annual Electricity, Gas & Water 13 releases 14 releases Transport, storage & communication 25 releases Tourism 1 release Agriculture, hunting, forestry & fishing

12. Transform economies for jobs and inclusive growth: MDG 1,2 Understanding Price changes Re-engineered PPI published In Feb 2013 Reweighted CPI published In Feb 2013 12 releases Consumer Price Index 12 releases Producer Price Index 12 releases Understanding Employment, Decent work and Job creation Working Age population 33,4 million Quarterly Employment Survey Quarterly Labour Force Survey 4 releases 4 releases Annual Report Source: Stats SA, Quarterly Labour Force Survey, 2013

13. Leave no one behind : MDG 1,2,3 Understanding Poverty and Service Delivery General Household Survey Countrywide almost 85% of households had access to electricity Non-financial Survey of Municipalities 12 releases 3 Release 1 Release 1 Release Living Conditions Survey 1 release Income & Expenditure Survey Understanding Education Statistical system: Partnering with Dept of Basic Education Census of Schools (Limpopo & Eastern Cape) Census 2011 General Household Survey Quarterly Labour Force Survey

14. Leave no one behind : MDG 4,5,6 Understanding Health Mortality and Causes of Death 1 Release 12 releases Other Vital statistics 16 releases Tuberculosis has been the leading cause of death over the past 10 years Statistical support to Department of Health Understanding Crime Statistical system: Partnering with South African Police Service 1 release Victims of Crime Survey • Statistical support to SAPS: • Policy document on Crime Statistics • Crime statistics standards • Training in SASQAF 2 reports

20. Statistical products • Improve speed and platforms of delivery of statistics such as : Roambi, Mobi, androids, web portal, cd’s, print • Key products: • My Ward, My Councillor • Digital Atlas • My Village, My Suburb (Ikaya) • Umkhanyakude (new data portal)

21. Measurement Gaps and what is being done • Locate sustainable development at the core: • Natural Capital Accounting • International Comparisons Programme • Financial flows and trade • Institutionalize just and accountable systems • For peace and freedom • Implementing data systems for Governance Peace • and Security • Forge a new global partnership • Trade and migration statistics • Paris Declaration for aid effectiveness

22. What statistical plans is Africa implementing • Administrative Records • Civil Registration and Vital Statistics (30/54 ready) • Surveys • International Comparison Programme (50/54 participated) • Governance Peace and Security (20/54 ready) • Financial flows and trade • Censuses • Africa counts in the 2010 Round of Censuses (52/54) • Institutional arrangements • African Charter on statistics (9/54) ratified • Strategy for Harmonisation of statistics (54/54 adopted) • Briefing of UN Missions

23. Recommendations to the Open Working Group • Missions to be briefed regularly on measurement by their regional representatives • Support the ECOSOC to ensure approval of Fundamental Principles of Official Statistics by the General Assembly • Consider a leadership programme for heads of statistics institutions • Statistics is part of the system of governance

24. START for Impact Statistics for Transparency Accountability Results and Transformation START anchors durable and capable country systems that can improve governance Absence of evidence: • Decimates accountability and transformation; • Stimulates barren political engagements; • Feeds absence of political will; and • Creates inertia, inaction and malpractices Statistics are facts about the state. Their absence is less governance and less statehood